Dolphins CB Tony Lippett out for the season with torn Achilles

Miami Dolphins cornerback Tony Lippett has dealt with a foot injury for the last few days. After practice on Tuesday, Dolphins head coach Adam Gase announced that Lippett’s 2017 season is over.

Lippett tore his Achilles tendon and is out for the season, as he is scheduled to have surgery. Gase said he learned of the injury happened halfway through practice on Monday.

“Anytime you lose a guy that started for you, that’s not ideal,” Gase said. “But that’s why we’ve collected the depth that we have. And that’s why we’re trying to get young players to go because this is what happens. So we have to just keep developing these young players and that’s why every year we’re drafting a guy or really when we get to college, free agency we feel like we’ve found a couple of guys this year. And we just want them to keep proving it to us. And we feel like we’re pretty deep there. And we’ve just got to keep getting these guys better.”

Gase said the injury occurred when Lippett jumped up as he came down without anyone touching him. During training camp, Lippett was second behind Xavien Howard on the Dolphins depth chart.

Last season, Lippett led the Dolphins in interceptions with four. He also recorded 67 tackles and 10 pass breakups. Now that Lippett is out for the season, this will give veteran Alterraun Verner more of an opportunity to make the Dolphins 53-man roster.